Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot. My twitchin' muscles tease my flippant thoughts.
I never really dreamed of heaven much until we put him in the ground, but it's all I'm doing now
- listening for patterns in the sound of an endless static sea. ~ Conor Oberst

April 06, 2006

Directed by Ron Howard, this film tells the story of depression era boxer James J Braddock. Braddock started his career hot winning many fights and never getting knocked out. His career started to decline and he and his family begin to live in poverty in NYC. The story uses the themes of the American Dream to show Braddock's determination to provide a good life for his family. As an Irish immigrant he works on the docks while trying to get fights and soon makes his comeback. His hard work and single-mindedness for his family give him the strength to become a boxing champion again. A good film that uses boxing as a sideshow to the sentimental theme of the story which is one man's journey from rags to riches. Russell Crowe plays Braddock, Renee Zellweger - his wife, and Paul Giamatti is his manager.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel- ‘Yes, that is the way it is, or at least that is the way I feel it.’ You’re not as alone as you thought. —John Steinbeck